Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves: The Rhetoric of Reproduction in Early Modern England

by Eve Keller

Book Overview

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between medical writing about generation and childbirth - what we now call reproduction - and emerging notions of selfhood in early modern England. At a time when medical texts first appeared in English in large numbers and the first signs of modern medicine were emerging both in theory and in practice, medical discourse of the body was richly interwoven with cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986417
• ISBN13: 9780295986418
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.0"